Sign-ups for the Ada summer swim team will be held Thursday, April 23, and Monday, April 27, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Ada First United Methodist Church, 301 N. Main St. in Ada. Swimmers from ages 5 to 18 are invited.
The cost is $50 per child, with a $5 credit for each additional family member. This cost includes one ad per family in the championship heat sheet. A $10 late fee will be assessed for anyone registering after May 25.
Junior Taryn Stromback joined the 100 win club as the Ohio Northern women's tennis team swept three matches at the 2nd Annual OAC Tennis Fest at Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, Ohio.
Ohio Northern improves to 15-3 on the season and 6-0 in Ohio Athletic Conference play.
In her career Stromback is 43-22 at singles, 58-14 in doubles play and 101-36 overall. She is the 11th member to notch 100 wins for Ohio Northern.
The Polar Bears were led in the first match by senior Michelle Tuma who posted a 6-1, 6-1 victory at No. 1 singles and teamed up with junior Meghan Letizia to win No. 2 doubles 8-0.
The Ohio Northern women's track & field team broke three ONU school records Saturday as they finished fifth at the All-Ohio meet at the George Gauthier Track located on the campus of Ohio Wesleyan.
Junior Michaela Dramis, sophomore Dianna Johnson-Ward, and the 4x100 meter relay team of sophomore Allison Gast, senior Gabrielle Metzner, junior Kristine Wagner, and sophomore Meagan Ellinger all set new ONU school records.
The Polar Bears scored 58.33 points in the meet and improve to 35-7 overall on the season.
By Monty Siekerman
ONU faces Notre Dame in football Friday night under the lights, but it isn't what it seems.
The football contest features robots. The "lights" are inside King-Horn, a gymnasium, not turf.
And, ONU is out for revenge...no one today can recall the time Notre Dame skunked ONU 87 to naught, with a real pigskin...that was 102 years ago...in 1913.
Now there is a story behind the football drubbing that ONU took at the hands of the Irish more than a century ago.
Students from Ohio Northern University’s T.J. Smull College of Engineering have created a team of robotic football players to compete in the annual University of Notre Dame robotic football competition on Friday, April 10, at 7 p.m. in the Ohio Northern University King Horn Sports Center. The event is free and open to the public.
